Research Catalog

Title

Infinite variety : women in society and literature / edited by Firdous Azim, Niaz Zaman.

Publication

Dhaka : University Press, 1994.

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Additional Authors

• Azim, Firdous, 1952-
• Zaman, Niaz.

Description

vii, 376 pages; 22 cm

Summary

• Infinite Variety: Women in Society and Literature includes papers by 22 scholars from Bangladesh, India, Sri Lanka and the United Kingdom on a variety of aspects relating to women as well as a selection of short stories and poems - in the original Bangla and English translation - by leading contemporary women writers of Bangladesh. A valuable introduction analyses feminism and traces the different forms it has taken in Europe, America and Asia.
• The papers discuss various pertinent issues. For example, What strategies did the woman novelist in nineteenth-century Bengal employ to voice her protest? Why are educational novels proscribed reading for women? How do minority or colonised women overcome their double disadvantages? What leads a woman poet like Sarojini Naidu to relinquish her poetic vocation? And what strategies does a woman like Rokeya Sakhawat Hossein use to liberate women from the strangehold of a patriarchal society?
• A first-person account by a woman politician-cum-editor analyses the pitfalls of journal publication. Together, the analytical papers and selected creative writing form a valuable addition to feminist studies at the same time as they provide an insight into Bengali women's writing today.

Subjects

• Women and literature
• Bengali literature > History and criticism
• Women > Bangladesh > Social conditions
• Women and literature > Bangladesh

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

• Rights and the Women's Movement / Shireen Huq -- An Englishwoman's Quest for Independence in Eighteenth-Century Calcutta: Eliza Fay's Original Letters from India / Fakrul Alam -- Freedom and Slavery: Looking at Behn's Oroonoko / Firdous Azim -- Women's Occupation in Medieval Bengal / Razia Sultana -- Women's Women: Images of Women in Women's Fiction in Bangla / Humayun Azad -- Reforms of Women as Reflected in the Novels of Nazir Ahmed / Kaniz-e-Butool -- Her Heavenly Ornaments of Wisdom and Good Deeds: A Critique of Maulana Ashraf Ali Thanwi's Beheshti Zewar / Perween Hasan -- Subaltern's World View: A Reading of Sultana's Dream / Syed Manzoorul Islam -- The New Woman in Literature and the Novels of Nojibur Rahman and Rokeya Sakhawat Hossein / Sonia Nishat Amin -- The Golden Threshold of Sarojini Naidu / Malashri Lal -- Gender Roles and a New Protestantism: An Appraisal of Some Indian Women's Autobiographies / Moutushi Chakravartee --
• Najma Jesmin Chowdhury's Shamne Shomoi and Anita Desai's Fire on the Mountain / Shireen Huq -- Bapsi Sidhwa: Search for Identity / Niaz Zaman -- The Double Knot in the Peeny / Joy Hendry -- Man in a Woman's World: Paule Marshall and Her Male Characters / Fayeza Sultana -- Marriage, Motherhood and Fulfilment: Flora Nwapa's One is Enough / Amina Amin -- Female Performers in the Indigenous Theatre of Bengal / Syed Jamil Ahmed -- The Representation and Characterization of Women in Contemporary Theatre: The Case of Bishad Shindhu / Meghna Guhathakurta -- Gender Representations in the Modern Sri Lankan Theatre / Neluka Silva -- Women in Indian and Bangladeshi Films / K. Rezaur Rahman -- Problems Faced by Women Journalists in Bangladesh / Nahid Bakr -- My Experiences as an Editor of a Bangla Magazine / Noorjehan Murshid -- Shokunera Shobkhane: The Vultures are Everywhere / Makbula Manzoor -- Joy-Joyonti: The Mid-Morning Raga / Razia Khan --
• Arandhan: Radha Will Not Cook Today / Purabi Basu -- Selected Poems / Taslima Nasreen.

ISBN

9840512528 :

LCCN

94904691

OCLC

• 31242154
• ocm31242154

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries